The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-06-29

4 MISTAKEN JOURNAL.

WI men PRESIDENT cleveland SeHI III!
congratulatory dispatch to Queen Vic
toria to be delivered on the occasion O.
her jubilee celebration, he undoubtedly
Intended to pay her pretty but mean
ingless compliment; the dispatch Wa
in the nature of what is vulgarly
called "taffy." II certainly did moi
mean that the President and spokes-
man of the American people intended
to convey the impression that we were
getting tired of our democratic ways
and were gradually leaning toward
mOnarchial ideas. If he had any such
intention he did not represent any con-
siderable number of his countrymen,
and such as be did represent are re-
garded as OF small account, being OF
the asinine, dudish class sometimes
seen in the large cities, and known as
Anglo-maniacs. Yet the London
! Standard finds in Cleveland's words
something encouraging to its royalist
soul. 1t says: at is certain our
friends over the Atlantic are revolving
from Democracy, and seeking culture,
as we understand, with hopeful eager
ness. When it is won a very large part
of them will pay for sovereign of their
own" If the Standard believes itself il
has no conception of the American char
acter, and only the vaguest idea Of the
depth to which democracy has sent its
roots in the American heart and intel
Egence, There was never time in the
history Of the nation when republican
ism was more popular or better loved
than now. The steady tendency of the
people is IL the direction OF eliminating
from our institutions everything indi-
cative of royalty. In this line is the
movement in favor of the abolition of
the American Senate, the upper house
OF Congress bearing something of 4
resemblance to House of Lords, and |
the manner of choosing the Senators |
not being democratic. Our way of |
electing President is not strictly re
publican, inasmuch as the choice CT the |
is not always inaugurated; |
because OF this, there is popular de-
mand which will be needed one of these
days, that the election OF the nations
chief magistrate be by direct
vote of the people. Instead of re-
Voting from democracy. and desiring
q monarch, our people are more in
.ensely in love with their system than
ever, and as this love increases with the
Years., respect for royaIist ideas grows
ess. The reverence for republican ir-
titutions and for Jefferson, Fran Kiln
ND others has become a part OF the
American nature, and Is not likely TO
re eliminated until the world can show
Is something grander and more perfect
the way of governments than has
yer yet been presented in the form Of
Great Britain approaches
is near to perfection, perhaps, as it is
possible for monarchy to reach, and
where Is the American who would ex-
hange his free republican institutions
or the royalist ways of Victoria's
Kingdom? 1t is true the cost has some
hing to do with holding the people to
heir love Of democracy. The expense
maintaining the White House for the
tficial residence of the President is
l25,GOO, while EngIishmen pay
:, 100000 for keeping up Buck
1gham Palace for their Queen
'ut the cost would not deter
americans from adopting royalty if
oyalty were better than the simple
emocracy which holds all men on the
anne political if not on the same social
lane
The Standard has misread President
leveland's dispatch. 1t has found G
omething which was never written 8
nd never intended to be written. In
Ssuming that Americans are firing of 2
emocracy, it deceives itself and may
lislead its English readers, but il
lakes itself ridiculous IN American ]
res.